The Climate Book

Author Greta Thunberg
Narrator various
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Run Time 17 hours and 12 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Climate change, Conservation of the environment, Development economics and emerging economies, Environmental economics, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Political activism, Weather and climate: general interest.

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We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.

In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?

We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.

© Greta Thunberg 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

With The Climate Book, a stunning and essential new work, Greta Thunberg takes her mission to the next level … [It is] an incredible and moving resource. There are chapters on almost everything you might need to know about … the book is a curated, portable library of knowledge, full of classics. Everyone will get something different from reading this book … It is an extraordinary body of work and I can’t recommend it highly enough. You feel the passion as well as the intellectual heft of the authors, and that is what is so moving about it. It is time for all of us to rise up

New Scientist

I would hope it is the kind of book everyone feels they should buy, read and act on: if you’ve tried to recycle a coffee pod, bought an electric car or started using a reusable water bottle, this book knows the combination of fear, hope and duty that made you do it and has a million more suggestions. It should be a bookcase staple, like Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time or Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

The Times

Spectacular … The scope of this work is planetary in scale. It is a massive undertaking in which Greta Thunberg calls on the best people possible to help her make sense of the rapid trashing of the natural world and the ecosystems life depends on … Ultimately, this is an unexpectedly uplifting volume, fizzing with the world’s best science and analysis, and what we can now do with it

Independent

This book is superb at explaining the urgency and importance of preventing climate change… its writers weave messages with skill and beauty… this is a campaigning book of course, but much more than that

Guardian

A compelling read… Thunberg has called upon some of the brightest minds in the fight against global warming

Herald

Important and stunningly handsome… this is a superb vademecum

Telegraph

Most of us don’t know very much about climate science. More than a rallying call, what we need is a crash course. So [Thunberg] has gathered together an anthology of essays from more than a hundred scientists, journalists and activists-a kind of beginner’s guide to global warming … [It] looks fantastic, with beautifully rendered charts and haunting photographs… My copy is dotted with annotated exclamation marks

The Times

As brave as it is accomplished and succeeds well beyond any reasonable expectation

Business Post

An admirable and monumental effort…[Thunberg] is a truly exceptional figure, fluent way beyond her years in grasping and communicating the complexity and connectedness of these crises

Irish Times

A valuable resource for anyone who wants an ironclad summary of the problems, combined with some credible remedies

Observer

A compendious introduction to climate change’s impacts and solutions by more than 100 writers, activists, and academics. Together, they break down the sometimes overwhelming complexity of climate change into manageable chunks

The Times Books of the Year

I’ll be giving Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book to everyone: for the way it urges us to refuse to acquiesce in the destruction of the living world. It offers real, rich hope: but only if that hope is active

Observer Books of the Year

Impressive… the cumulative impact on my understanding of the [climate] crisis through its data, cross-cultural reflections, and paths for step-by-step change became mesmerizing

NPR

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